Lots of noise about the options, hoping that is a big nod to steamdeck support, although games should really just come out and say "graphics can be set so low that even steamdeck runs it" and then everyone will know everything.

phinn wrote on Jan 9, 2025, 13:43:
Preordered it and I never do that but the preorder sale price is great. Looks like some nice tweaks for PC and no blurfest like the console. Love FF7 it's a masterpiece, still got my disks from the 90s next to Quake on my bookshelf. Yea the Remake took a 4 hour intro city and bloated it to 40 hours and added a lot of dumb stuff like whispers/fate/plot changes, but oh well, I still want to play Rebirth.

I miss turn based combat (peaking at FFX let's face it) too and the perfectly concise 40 hour original but still enjoy these new titles. The action based combat system is quite good once you get used to it, and you can keep issuing commands to party members so good enough. As a multiplayer FPS and Soulsborne junky this will be a nice change of pace for me.

Ditto - pre-ordered too at 43% off from GreenManGaming, I even splurged on the Deluxe pack for myself. I never pre-order... well, i guess I can say I do pre-order after all.
I find the combat fun and rewarding. The turn-based combat was a relic of console limitations and they kept it up into the PS2 era out of tradition. There's nothing wrong with modernizing the combat while they modernize the rest of the tale, and while parts of Remake definitely dragged - running across the same hallways/roads/switchbacks back and forth and back and forth definitely got stale - I'm still playing the game, doing Shinra combat scenarios and enjoying the cutscenes. Bless that mod community, too...
I even upgraded my GPU for Rebirth so I don't have to play at 30fps. I'm definitely looking forward to this game, and Square even promised Steam Deck Verified status...

Cram wrote on Jan 9, 2025, 13:24:

Dacron wrote on Jan 9, 2025, 12:48:
Wish there was an option for the original turn based combat of FF7. Was disappointed to learn the combat was action orientated/real time.

I'm hoping the recent success of the Dragon Quest 3-HD 2D Remake shows SquareEnix, and other game companies, there is success to be had by going the, basically, 1:1 remake route with classic RPGs.

There's not often a thread on a forum somewhere when FFVII remake is being discussed where someone will not say, whether in context of the conversation or not, say "I wish they just remade FFVII PSX with just updated graphics".

That said, I don't personally mind the direction they took with this remake. Fresh take on something I already probably played 20x + over the last 25 years.

There was a mod or something I watched where someone did this. I'm not sure if it went full to download, but it was old school FF7 with highly modified graphics. I think it may have been even using Unreal engine 5. Or that they used AI to update the graphics. I forget, but this reminded me of it when you mentioned that.

That said, I should really get back to beating FF7 Intergrade on PC. I kind of lost interest with everything else I got going on. Just can't get into story games these days the way I used to. Time is fleeting.

Preordered it and I never do that but the preorder sale price is great. Looks like some nice tweaks for PC and no blurfest like the console. Love FF7 it's a masterpiece, still got my disks from the 90s next to Quake on my bookshelf. Yea the Remake took a 4 hour intro city and bloated it to 40 hours and added a lot of dumb stuff like whispers/fate/plot changes, but oh well, I still want to play Rebirth.

I miss turn based combat (peaking at FFX let's face it) too and the perfectly concise 40 hour original but still enjoy these new titles. The action based combat system is quite good once you get used to it, and you can keep issuing commands to party members so good enough. As a multiplayer FPS and Soulsborne junky this will be a nice change of pace for me.

Dacron wrote on Jan 9, 2025, 12:48:
Wish there was an option for the original turn based combat of FF7. Was disappointed to learn the combat was action orientated/real time.

I'm hoping the recent success of the Dragon Quest 3-HD 2D Remake shows SquareEnix, and other game companies, there is success to be had by going the, basically, 1:1 remake route with classic RPGs.

There's not often a thread on a forum somewhere when FFVII remake is being discussed where someone will not say, whether in context of the conversation or not, say "I wish they just remade FFVII PSX with just updated graphics".

That said, I don't personally mind the direction they took with this remake. Fresh take on something I already probably played 20x + over the last 25 years.

This comment was edited on Jan 9, 2025, 13:42.

Wish there was an option for the original turn based combat of FF7. Was disappointed to learn the combat was action orientated/real time.